This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.Nearly two dozen protesters have been arrested in the Granite Mainline Forest Service Road area, as RCMP enforced a BC Supreme Court injunction against blockades set up to prevent old-growth logging on southern Vancouver Island.
A total of 23 people were arrested, four of whom were removed from under a vehicle they had attached themselves to earlier in the day.In a statement, Chief Superintendent John Brewer, Gold Commander of the Community-Industry Response Group, called the protesters’ tactics “appalling.” RCMP say since enforcement of the court injunction began in May, 579 people have been charged, at least 39 of whom were previously arrested.
They’re like lunatics in an asylum. They’ll take a shit and pick it up and throw it at the police but sometimes they can’t help themselves and they just eat it
Didn't the BC RCMP also set up illegal exclusion zones that prevented media from reporting on the their violent crackdown on protesters? Glass houses and stones, all that stuff.
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